Weekly Shaarli

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Week 17 (April 23, 2007)

EDUCAUSE REVIEW | March/April 2007 | Software Patents: Why Should We Care?

Imagine a world in which Socrates not only originated the dialogue form of inquiry but also filed a patent claiming "intellectual property" rights for his invention and then vigorously enforced his patent against the Sophists to ensure the "purity" of his

PyMedia - Python module for avi, mp3, dvd, wma, ogg processing - pymedia_tut

PyMedia is a Python library for accessing and manipulating media files. It makes audio and video playback/creation a snap for even a newcomer to programming.

Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided.

pdf-mags.com - Your PDF mag’s magazine

your infobase for PDF magazines made all over the world.

Context Free Art

Chris Coyne created a small language for design grammars. These grammars are sets of non-deterministic rules to produce images. The images are surprisingly beautiful, often from very simple grammars.